6 - Copy of the Foundation Stone Inscription and Chronicle of Relocation of the Seraphic School to Rochestown

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Copy of the Foundation Stone Inscription and Chronicle of Relocation of the Seraphic School to Rochestown

1 p.; manuscript

Register entry chronicling the foundational development, cornerstone placement, and early educational operations of the Capuchin house at Rochestown, County Cork. The document begins with an administrative note detailing an institutional relocation on 22 November 1886, where the Seraphic School was transferred from Kilkenny to Rochestown, and the Novitiate was moved from Rochestown back to Kilkenny. The central portion transcribes the Latin foundation stone inscription (‘Exemplar Inscriptionis’) laid on 10 June 1887 in honor of St. Joseph, Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary; this text commemorates the priesthood jubilee of Pope Leo XIII and the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria, while attributing construction credits to J. Travers Senior as architect and E. and P. O’Flynn as builders. The lower portion provides a localized chronicle tracking the complex’s completion in January 1888, the transfer of students from Kilkenny and Cork on 1 January 1888, the opening of philosophy classes on 2 February 1888, and the solemn profession of Brother Maurice on the Feast of St. Joseph.

ISAD(G) 2nd edition